Date: Sun, 26 Nov 95 21:52:09 CST From: Joe Greco <jgreco@solaria.sol.net> To: dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (David Dawes) Cc: maral@webnet.com.au, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Argh, lost console :-( Message-ID: <199511270352.VAA21120@solaria.sol.net> In-Reply-To: <199511260530.QAA12774@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> from "David Dawes" at Nov 26, 95 04:30:56 pm
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> I always start it from /etc/rc.local (and haven't had any problems > as a consequence). I have the following in /etc/rc.local: > > if [ -f /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -a -f /usr/local/etc/xdm/xdm-config ]; then > echo -n ' xdm' > # Delay to allow the fontserver to come up > (sleep 5; /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -config /usr/local/etc/xdm/xdm-config)& > fi Same here.... so this was an unexpected treat :-) > Perhaps running 'kbd_mode -u' will put it into the correct mode for X, > and 'kbd_mode -a' for text mode? I've never needed to use this though. And here I thought that was a Sun-ism! Okay, I will try that next time I get a chance. But it seems to be something deeper in syscons and/or my hardware setup, because the keyboard actually stops responding until poked and prodded to death... ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847
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